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NATO and Russian officials have much to discuss during the NATO-Russia Council meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, U.S. Department of State has reported.”We will address… the crisis in and around Ukraine, military activity, transparency, risk reductions and Afghanistan,” NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Tuesday, the report says.The...

President Raul Castro will serve up to five more years as head of Cuba`s Communist Party as he and other aging revolutionaries keep their grip on power at a time of economic reform and detente with the United States, according to Reuters.The Communist Party announced the result of internal elections on Tuesday. Wrestling with economic change and...

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic on Tuesday expressed concern about the intimidation of journalist Nikolay Semena in the Russian-occupied Crimea, Ukraine.According to reports, Semena`s apartment in Simferopol was searched and his equipment was seized in the early hours of April 19. The journalist was detained and...

Newly appointed Ukrainian Finance Minister Oleksandr Danylyuk announces his ministry has decided on several steps to introduce Controlled Foreign Company rules to prevent the shift of profits in preferential tax jurisdictions, or tax havens, and re-route funds back to Ukraine (the so-called `de-offshorization`).”Pursuant to the president`s...

The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine has said it recorded the deployment of heavy weapons, including Grad MLRS, in the militant-controlled cities of Luhansk and Donetsk.”In violation of the respective withdrawal lines, the SMM saw seven multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS; BM-21 Grad, 122mm), seven self-propelled howitzers (2S1...

China conducted another flight test of its newest and longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile last week amid growing tensions with the United States over the South China Sea, The Washington Free Beacon has reported.Pentagon officials told the Free Beacon the flight test of the new road-mobile DF-41 missile took place Tuesday with two...

The National Bank of Ukraine on Tuesday evening strengthened the official hryvnia exchange rate by four kopiykas, bringing the national currency to UAH 25.44 to the dollar. The Central Bank set the following official exchange rates of the hryvnia against leading foreign currencies for April 20: $100 costs UAH 2,544.3478 (on April 19, it was UAH...

The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 23 times in the past 24 hours, using banned weapons 11 times, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO). ”The illegal armed groups were active in the Donetsk and Mariupol sectors. The invaders fired 120mm mortars on our fortified...

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won their New York presidential primaries Tuesday, ending losing streaks for both campaigns and allowing the two front-runners to reassert control over their party nominating fights, according to Bloomberg.Clinton`s victory makes her march to the nomination all but unstoppable, Bloomberg wrote.Sanders, a Vermont...

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the widespread international tax avoidance schemes exposed by the Panama Papers leak, published by the Guardian and other journalistic partners.Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney for Manhattan, said he had ”opened a criminal investigation regarding matters to which the Panama...